Business Administration, Department
Fakultät International Business
Hochschule Heilbronn
Fakultät International Business
Studiengänge Internationale Betriebswirtschaft (IB)
Bildungscampus Nord
D-74081 Heilbronn
Telephone: +49 7131 504-0
https://www.hs-heilbronn.de
HS Heilbronn
Department on the internet
Studiengänge Internationale Betriebswirtschaft (IB)
Bildungscampus Nord
D-74081 Heilbronn
Telephone: +49 7131 504-0
https://www.hs-heilbronn.de
HS Heilbronn
Department on the internet
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Basic information
- Total number of students at the department
830
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
50
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
10/16 points
International orientation
- Outgoing students
5.0%
Job market- and career-orientation
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
37.9%
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
23.2%
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
11.4%
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
11.5%
Research
- Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)
2
- Third party funds per professor
no data
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
- Career and practical orientation
- Learning and working spaces
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Exam organisation
- Digital learning
- Support for stays abroad
- Rooms
- Library
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
59
Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Digital learning
- Practical orientation in teaching
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Transition to Master's studies
- Research orientation
- Support for stays abroad
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
no data
Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme
Students can generally choose to take their courses in English or German (English only for IB-E). The acquisition of a second foreign language is compulsory. All lecturers are native speakers. Teaching is designed to be intercultural with a focus on Spanish, Arabic, French, Eastern-European or German (for IB-E only) regions. A wide range of options in terms of courses, blended learning, bilingualism, thinking laboratories, configurable lecture halls, integrated practice projects, excursions, general studies.
Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes
A wide range of options in terms of courses, blended learning, thought laboratories, configurable lecture halls, excursions, general studies.
Special features regarding the international orientation
There are regular excursions to target regions as part of the courses. The IBIS degree course is internationally accredited by EFMD. An international programme accreditation of the other Bachelor's degree programmes is intended. The international orientation is reflected also in the large number of incoming and outgoing students. Bilingualism, semester abroad, internships abroad, a wide range of foreign languages, teaching staff from approx. 20 countries, more than 100 partner universities. Collaborative Online International Learning formats (coil projects).
Exchange universities for stay abroads
American Cairo University, Kario, Ägypten; ESAN University Peru, Lima, Peru; Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spanien; Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexiko; IPAG Business School, Paris, Frankreich; Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata, Argentinien; Kingston University, London, Vereinigtes Königreich; Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, Nagoya, Japan; Mount Royal University, Calgary, Kanada; Universtiy of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Bradford, USA.
Special features regarding the equipment
IT rooms, VR laboratory, sensor technology laboratory, video conference room, group and meeting rooms with diverse media equipment, largest university library in Baden-Württemberg with over 400,000 media, global classrooms, SPSS and SAP software, market research institute.
Special features regarding research activities
The department has two research institutes: H-InfaM in general and ITTH with a focus on tourism and hospitality.
Other special features
Modern educational campus in the heart of the city of Heilbronn; Equality and Diversity Department; Council for Sustainable Development; Certification as a family-friendly university; Focus on interculturality, sustainability and AI in the study programmes
Further information on research activities
Information on access restrictions
Website of the Student Council
online-application
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Acronyms
(S) = Students' judgements
(F) = Facts
(P) = Professors' judgements
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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education